Author: Mark Fenton-O'Creevy

Mark Fenton-O'Creevy is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the Open University and is Associate Dean (External Engagement) for the Open University Faculty of Business and Law, where he is also a member of the True Potential Centre for the Public Understanding of Finance (PUFin). He is an educator, researcher and consultant. He has a long standing interest in the work, behaviour and performance of professional traders. He has acted as an academic advisor to BBC programmes including the Money Programme', and 'The Love of Money' and (with Adrian Furnham) created the 'Big Money Test for the BBC's LabUK and the Watchdog programme.

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Let’s call him James, a trader in a City investment bank; young, smartly dressed, confident, and a little impatient. He sat across from me in the interview:

“It’s really important to stay cool. For myself, I can say that I really don’t have much emotion while I trade”.

Half an hour later, as he relaxed a little, the façade had started to crack:

“Actually the pressure can be horrendous, a trade goes badly wrong, you are staring into black hole, frozen, knowing you should get out but just hoping the market will turn . . I rushed off the desk and threw up in the toilet – I was terrified”.

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Here is a link to my interview with Michael Considine of Share Radio. Where I talk about my research on emotions and investment and the work of the True Potential Centre for the Public Understanding of Finance. Continue reading Interview on Share Radio

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